The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-08-03
THE BANB OF WHISKEY.
PROHIBITION Is THE CURE-AN ELO-
QUENT APPEAL FOR OUR HOMES
AND OUR SONS.
Address of Rev. j. b. Hawthorne In Au-
gusta, Ga.

OUENT AEfEAL cON OoAs A-'
AND OUR SONS.
Address of Rev. j. b. Hawthorne In Au-
gusta, Ga.
augusta Chronicle.
DR.. Hawthorne said: The best years OF
my life have been given to fighting an evil
which is now universally conceded to be
the worst enemy of our race. 1t has been
with me go far, and I trust it will be to
the eud, a work of love. My labors in
this sacred cause are rewarded only by
the approval of my own conscience and
by the joy which I experience in seeing
truth and virtue triumph, and individu.
ais, families and communities lifted from
bondage into freedom. I can say with.
out affectation that I have enjoyed even
the persecution to which I have been
subjected, because, in the midst of them,
I have noticed that the angel of martyr.
dom is brother to the angel of victory
Every anathema from goddess whiskey
ring, or it's hirelings. that has fallen
upon me has been transformed by Gods
protecting goodness into blessing to
the righteous cause which I represent.
I abide in the conviction that success
is as certain as the promises of faithful
Lord can make it. I believe that the
patriotic and virtue.loving people of this
country will arise in their majesty and
stamp out this whiskey curse. They
have done this in every community
where they have been rightly influenced
as to its magnitude and their danger.
This great movement originated with
the people. The politicians would not
deign to notice it until they saw that it
was destined to sweep the country. Their
eyes are open at last, and they now see
that it is question for craftsmanship,
and we have no lack of. statesmen who
are ready to ventilate it on the rostrum
and in the halls of legislation.
It is movement Of the people, and
the people will push it forward to COM
plete and glorious success. We invite
the politicians to 60 with us, but if they
they decline we can and will succeed
without them.
If they choose to lend themselves to
the whiskey ring and attempt to defeat
us, we will relegate them to an inglorious
retirement, where they can have an ops
portunity to mediate upon their folly
and repent Of their sin.
Ny friends, We have reached the
grandest epoch of our country's history.
This decade of our national life is the
pivotal point toward which the lines of
past progress have converged, aud from
which will radiate the moulding inauen-i
ces of the future.
The time, is upon US when ne must and
will decide whether this shall be Gods
country or the devil's-whether we shall
be dominated by virtuous men Or bad
men, whether we shall have reign of
righteousness or reign of diabolism.
What the friends of Christian civiliza'
tion propose to do must be done quickly.
If we fail to utilize the opportunities
which are now afforded us, the time will
soon come when we shall be completely
at the mercy of the vandal hordes that
are banded together for the destruction
of all that is dearest and most sacred to
us.
One of the calmest aud most conserva.
tive thinkers upon this continent tells US
that if emigration should continue at the
present rate.i 1900, a. little more than
twelve years hence, there will be in this
country 100000 persons of foreign
birth. If we add to this number the
children OF these foreigners, we shall
have upon American soil in the year
1900 about 100000 of people i'll SYM
pathy with foreign sentiments and Gus.
toms. But if there should not be some
legislation to check it, emigration will
be much more rapid in the next twelve
years than it has ever been. The vast.
ness of our territory and the opportuni.
ties to acquire property in land, offer q
powerful attraction to the crowded peo-
pie of Europe. The prospect of great
political and social upheavals is doing
much to stimulate immigration. The
question is seriously debated whether the
present government of France can last
FIVE years longer. The sentiment of Ger.
many to-day is Democratic. The death
of William and Bismarck will be the
signal for revolution. This is the con.
viction of the average German, and this
feeling swells the tide of emigration. A
distinguished member of the German
Parliament recently said, "the German
people have now but one want-money
enough to get to America"
Nihilism is shaking Austria from CEN
ire to circumference. The throne of
Russia stands upon q volcano. The
spirit of revolution is strong and rapidly
growing in every part of that vast
empire. Every thoughtful man sees
very clearly the changes which are des-
tined to take place in Great Britain.
Thomas Hume says, "We may despise
the present advocates of social democra'
cy, and make light of their sayings and
doings, but no man who knows what is
going on in England will deny that
there will have to be serious reckoning
with them at no distant day." A writer
in the British Quarterly says that "the
retirement of Mr.. Gladstone will be the
breaking up of the great deep in English
politics"
As these great upheayals become more
imminent the spirit of emigration grows
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